This issue includes information about: 

• Mental Capacity Act guidance
• building better lives in the community
• annual health checks 
• how to get support and speak up 

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The FIT dashboard provides information on the Investment and Impact Fund CAN-04 FIT incentive on a monthly basis.  This shows the percentage of lower gastrointestinal urgent suspected cancer referrals (two week wait) accompanied by a FIT result, with the result recorded in the twenty-one days leading up to the referral.

It also displays performance on the percentage of colonoscopies performed on the Lower GI Urgent Suspected Cancer (USC) pathway for those with a FIT,10ug/gm and for those with no FIT, and operational performance for the Lower GI USC pathway.

Friends and Family Test (FFT) gives patients the opportunity to submit feedback to providers of NHS funded care or treatment, using a simple question which asks how likely, on a scale ranging from extremely unlikely to extremely likely, they are to recommend the service to their friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment.

Data on all these services is published on a monthly basis.

Friends and Family Test (FFT) gives patients the opportunity to submit feedback to providers of NHS funded care or treatment, using a simple question which asks how likely, on a scale ranging from extremely unlikely to extremely likely, they are to recommend the service to their friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment.

Data on all these services is published on a monthly basis.

Please note: From April 2025 onwards, there is no longer a requirement to ask the 2 additional questions from the post-covid FFT, or to submit specific post-covid clinic FFT data.

Friends and Family Test (FFT) gives patients the opportunity to submit feedback to providers of NHS funded care or treatment, using a simple question which asks how likely, on a scale ranging from extremely unlikely to extremely likely, they are to recommend the service to their friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment.

Data on all these services is published on a monthly basis.

Friends and Family Test (FFT) gives patients the opportunity to submit feedback to providers of NHS funded care or treatment, using a simple question which asks how likely, on a scale ranging from extremely unlikely to extremely likely, they are to recommend the service to their friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment.

Data on all these services is published on a monthly basis.

Hardworking NHS staff delivered record numbers of treatments as the waiting list fell in May for the first time in 17 years*, new figures reveal today. Monthly NHS data shows the overall waiting list dropped by nearly 30,000 in May to 7.36 million – the lowest total since March 2023 – with 60.9% waiting 18 […]

Responding to the BMA announcement that resident doctors will undertake strike action, Meghana Pandit, NHS England Co-National Medical Director (Secondary Care), said: “It is disappointing the BMA have announced strike action, particularly so close to the 10 Year Health Plan that provides a clear vision for recovery and making the NHS fit for the future […]

Letter from Dr Claire Fuller, Co-National Medical Director (Primary Care), NHS England and Tom Riordan, Second Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Care inviting ICB Chief Executives and Local Authority Chief Executives to participate in the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP).

Integrated care boards, NHS trusts and foundation trusts and other NHS organisations should use this document to inform action to meet their legal duties on health inequalities and equalities.

This reference document replaces ‘Guidance for NHS commissioners on equality and health inequalities legal duties’ (2015). Any future updates will be clearly marked and communicated as appropriate.